Ordinary of Newgate Prison:
Ordinary's Accounts: Biographies of Executed Convicts

17th September 1684

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17th September 1684


THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE Condemned Criminals IN NEWGATE,VIZ; George Caskey< no role > , Francis Pevanson< no role > , Daniel Ballantine< no role > , William Pierce< no role > , Thomas Vickers< no role > . and Christian Broomfield< no role > , Elizabeth Ratcliff< no role > , Mary Vosse< no role > , Jane Bourne< no role > , Ann Smith< no role > . From their Sentence, to his Majesties Gracious Repreive. As Also Of John Richardson< no role > , a Tinker (for Murdering, his Wife) and John Tue< no role > This name instance is in set 3225. , for Murdering the Bayliffs Follower, To Their Execution at Tyburn, On Wendesday the 17th. of September, 1684 .

TOGETHER With his last FAREWELL to his Dear Wife, and little INFANT.

WHereas at the late Sessions of Gaol-Delivery, held in the Old-Bayly, on Wendesday, Thursday and Friday, the 3d , 4th , and 5th Days of September Instant. Twelve Persons received Sentence of Death, viz. George Caskey< no role > , Francis Pevanson< no role > , Daniel Ballantine< no role > , Christian Broomfield< no role > , Elizabeth Ratcliff< no role > , Mary Vosse< no role > , William Pierce< no role > , Thomas Vickers< no role > , Jane Bourne< no role > , Ann Smith< no role > , John Richardson< no role > and John Tue< no role > This name instance is in set 3225. . Of which the Ten first, had on Thursday the 11th . of this Instant, notice of their Reprieve: and the two latter of the Warrant for their Execution, on Wednesday the 17th. of September .

The Ordinary thinks fit to Publish, with the content of the Condemned Prisoners, and for the Warning of all others, what the said Persons of their own accord communicated to him of their former manner and course of Life, and how they now stand affected under the sentence of Death, and Prospect of that Eternity, into which they are Launching: when in all Moral credibility they speak the truth, and have another view of a future Estate than what in the careires of Sin and Vanity, and the Excesses of Youth and a Debauched Life they were wont to have; and also in reference to the Grounds they have to hope for a future, happy Estate.

As to the Ten former, of which (they being Reprieved;) he hath thought fit to




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